Environment

Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence (CUREx) Fellowships

DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program

Environmental Leadership Training Program

Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Ph.D. Fellowship

John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships

The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship

Kate Sherman Fellowship Program

Various Graduate Fellowship Programs
 

 

Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence (CUREx) Fellowships
Pennsylvania
Deadline: Varies (see website for details) 
Post grad
A unique partnership between the urban development industry, the University of Pennsylvania, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Seeking 10 highly motivated individuals each year to become CURExPenn Fellows. Fellows participate in two-year fellowships at top urban redevelopment organizations nationwide.

 

DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Deadline: January 
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) realizes that the country’s strong science and technology community provides a critical advantage in the development and implementation of counter-terrorist measures and other DHS objectives. The DHS Scholarship and Fellowship Program is intended for students interested in pursuing the basic science and technology innovations that can be applied to the DHS mission. This education program is intended to ensure a diverse and highly talented science and technology community to achieve the DHS mission and objectives. Areas of study that are eligible include: physical sciences, mathematical sciences, computer and information sciences, life sciences, social sciences, psychology, selected humanities, and engineering.

 

Environmental Leadership Training Program
Green Corps – Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco
Deadline: Mid-January

Green Corps’ one-year, full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program gives you the best instruction and experience available to launch an organizing and advocacy career. Our program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on field experience running urgent environmental and public health campaigns, and career placement in permanent leadership positions with leading environmental groups.

 

Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Ph.D. Fellowship
The Udall Foundation
Deadline: Late February

The Udall Foundation awards two one-year fellowships of up to $24,000 to doctoral candidates whose research concerns environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution and who are entering their final year of writing the dissertation. Dissertation Fellowships are intended to cover both academic and living expenses from July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.
Dissertation fellowships are open to scholars in all fields of study whose dissertation topic has significant relevance to national environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution. Previous fellows' fields of study include political science; economics; government; environmental science, policy and management; ecology; environmental justice; regional planning; geography; natural resource policy; and environmental analysis and design.

 

John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships
California Sea Grant National
Deadline: early to mid March
The Knauss fellowship, established in 1979, provides a unique educational experience to students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. The program matches highly qualified graduate students with "hosts" in the legislative and executive branch of government located in the Washington, D.C. area, for a one year paid fellowship. The program is named in honor of one of Sea Grant's founders, former NOAA Administrator, John A. Knauss.

 

The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship
Deadline: Early December

Each Fellowship is for one academic year of study in a program approved by the Committee. The place of study may be in America or abroad, in an approved educational institution, with an approved private teacher, or in independent study.
Urban and Regional Planning
Applicants for urban and regional planning should submit a written product (paper, studio project, or thesis) as evidence of their understanding of a planning issue or approach. Submissions may be in hard copy or via disk. Any area of urban and regional planning is eligible.

 

Kate Sherman Fellowship Program
20/20 Vision
The goal of the fellowship is to provide an educational, challenging and productive experience in public policy work on a wide range of peace and environmental issues, and to learn first-hand the workings of an effective non-profit organization.

 

Various Graduate Fellowship Programs
U.S. Department of Energy
Deadline: Varies
The DOE Graduate Fellowship Programs, which were established in 1981, are successor programs to the Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Special Fellows Programs existing from 1948 to 1974. The AEC program is credited with introducing the field of nuclear energy to hundreds of graduate students in universities throughout the United States. These AEC fellows have become leaders in the nuclear power industry and in research and development of nuclear energy. reflecting the changes in DOE over the pat two decades, The Graduate Fellowship Programs are composed of broadly based programs that include aspects of energy development, environmental management, and personnel safety and safeguards.
 

 

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